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Genuine good faith question here. Did Russian oil companies play a role in the invasion of Ukraine? And if they did, was it in a monopolies expanding outside of the bounds of the Russian economy kind of way or was it of a different character?
Invasion of Ukraine was going contrary to their interests, as we could see in countless maneuvers around that. Not accidentally west decided to play all the sanctions, there was very real possiblity of Russia really keeling over under them like it was intended. If you look at this war as imperialist war from the Russian point of view, it does not have any sense to do it, it only have sense if you see that Russia is reacting to prevent its own recolonisation.
Gazprom is majority state owned so it's a bit difficult to separate these things since it's the Russian state that launched the SMO. That being said, the only accusations of resource theft that I've seen have come from the western mainstream media. The only evidence given being the invasion itself. IMO, Russia's initial position of attempting to have negotiations that would give autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk while remaining a part of Ukraine shows that Russia's motivations are not the theft of resources.